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Duncan Bell (Cambridge): Political Realism and International Relations. Realism’s illiberal roots and its revival in American politics: Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins reviewsAfter the Enlightenment: Political Realism and International Relations in the Mid-Twentieth Century by Nicolas Guilhot. Helene Sjursen (Oslo): Global Justice and Foreign Policy: The Case of the European Union. Philip G. Cerny (Rutgers) and Alex Prichard (Exeter): The New Anarchy: Globalisation and Fragmentation in World Politics. After watching the destructive and unjust workings of international relations, former diplomat Carne Ross explains why direct democracy now makes more sense to him (and more). The first chapter from Fighting for Status: Hierarchy and Conflict in World Politics by Jonathan Renshon. Who runs the world? Mid-level bureaucrats.

A new issue of the Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business is out. Paul A. Gompers (Harvard), Will Gornall (UBC), Steven N. Kaplan (Chicago), and Ilya A. Strebulaev (Stanford): How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions? Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (Stetson): Slaves to the Bottom Line: The Corporate Role in Slavery from Nuremberg to Now. From ProMarket, an interview with John C. Coffee on political engagement by corporations. The best companies are medium-sized companies. U.S. companies are hyper-focused on quarterly earnings — what can be done to push them to invest more in the years and decades ahead?

The online marketplace that’s a portal to the future of capitalism: Services like Wish — through which American consumers can mainline goods directly from the manufacturing chaos of China — are harbingers of the end of retail as we know it. How Amazon’s accounting makes rich people’s income invisible: Increasingly, businesses don’t generate profits, they generate capital gains — it’s fiendishly clever. Duff McDonald's The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite pins corporate greed on a lust bred at Harvard. Business is bad for business: Why aren’t American companies spending money?

Neoclassical economic theory assumes that firms have no power to influence the rules of the game; this is true only in competitive product markets — when firms have market power, they will seek and obtain political influence and vice versa. Give Wells Fargo the corporate death penalty: The bank is a serial corporate criminal that has screwed over millions of Americans — here’s what the government should do about it.

Oliver Hahl (Carnegie Mellon) and Minjae Kim and Ezra Zuckerman (MIT): The Authentic Appeal of the Lying Demagogue: Proclaiming the Deeper Truth About Political Illegitimacy. Alex Shepard reviewsConscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle by Jeff Flake. The beliefs of economist James Buchanan conflict with basic democratic norms — here’s why. Most Republicans don’t believe race and gender discrimination is real. How the fight over civil forfeiture lays bare the contradictions in modern conservatism. The dangerous mirror games of the Right’s Alinksy wannabes: In picking up the tactics of the radical Left, but not the strategy, right-wing activists are taking an ever less conservative or effective approach. It’s Kid Rock’s party now: The GOP is about annoying liberals, not conservatism. Benjamin G. Lockerd reviewsHow to Be a Conservative by Roger Scruton.